Surrey Association Oath Rolls go online

The Surrey 1695 Association Oath Rolls are now online at the British Origins website. Oath rolls are an underused source of individuals’ names in the 16th to early 18th centuries. They could contain the names of a substantial proportion of the adult male population within the areas which they covered, and so offer a valuable pre-19th century “census substitute”.

Nearly 12,000 Surrey names dating from 1695 can now be searched in this British Origins collection, which includes Association Oath Rolls for: